DIVINE GRACE - Baba's Help to Boys in Infancy

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BABA'S HELP TO BOYS IN INFANCY

Strange Advice But Right

 

Sri Sai Baba had no school education. He never wrote or read anything

written. He never even signed his name – if he had any name except

the general name Sri Sai Baba i.e., Saintly Father which is

applicable to any holy fakir. Yet he knew all about school and

college studies and examinations and helped people to attain success

in these. The first instance is mentioned by H.S. Dixit, Ex. M.L.C.,

in his notes about Sri Sai Baba published by him in Vol. I and II of

Sai Lila Masik.

 

In 1913 when Mr. and Mrs. Dixit were living at Shirdi they sent a son

of theirs for his education to stay at Bandra with a friend. About a

month before the examination, the boy was seriously ill and Mr. Dixit

was asked to go over and see the boy. Sri Sai Baba to whom the letter

was shown, detained Mr. Dixit and wanted that the boy should be sent

up to Shirdi. In spite of his illness, and near approach of the

examinations and the unsuitability of that village for study or

medical treatment, the boy was brought to Shirdi. There he soon

regained his health. Yet, Baba did not sent him back, not on the date

fixed for examination, viz., 02-11-1913. The Bandra friend was

surprised at the detention. But the examination, he discovered, was

postponed to 06-11-1913. That friend wrote again to get the boy in

time for 06-11-1913. But Baba detained him once more having

foreknowledge that it would be postponed further to 13-11-1913. Baba

finally sent the boy in time to attend examination. Despite such long

absence the boy passed the examination.

 

(Courtesy: HH Pujyasri B.V. Narasimha Swamiji)